Construction
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Feds amplify funding for accessibility upgrades
A $100-million injection to Canada’s Enabling Accessibility Fund will boost availability of grants for retrofit, renovation and construction projects to support universal navigability of the built environment.
Construction Business
New roadmap for navigating IgCC requirements
ASHRAE and the International Code Council have collaborated on a users’ manual to support understanding and interpretation of the 2018 International Green Construction Code.
REMI Network
Ontario funds construction training in Hamilton
This support will reduce obstacles to hiring, training and retaining workers and apprentices, and reduce the stigma related to a career in the skilled trades to attract a new generation of workers.
Canadian Property Management
How Durable is Your Building?
Bryan Colvin of RJC Engineers walks us through the pros and cons of four common material to assess building durability.
Canadian Property Management
New office supply poses backfill challenges
An influx of new office supply was always expected to shake up the status quo in the downtown Toronto market given that approximately two-thirds of the 8+ million square feet of space currently under construction is already preleased.
REMI Network
RCCAO appoints Nadia Todorova executive director
Nadia Todorova has been appointed as executive director of the Residential and Civil Construction Alliance of Ontario (RCCAO), a leading industry advocate for infrastructure investment.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Northwest Ontario inmates await needed space
Work will soon be underway to ease overcrowding at two Northwest Ontario correctional facilities in the interim before a planned new 325-inmate complex is built in the region.
Construction Business
Construction rebar imports spur dumping inquiry
Canada Border Services Agency is currently investigating evidence that up to nine countries are dumping products that undercut domestic prices and are deleterious to Canadian manufacturers.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Eminent building scientist joins Order of Canada
As one of 47 newly announced members of the Order of Canada, Gina Cody has been cited for professional and business leadership and as a trailblazer for women in engineering.
REMI Network
New standard for accessible homes announced
The a new, national standard for affordable, adaptable and accessible homes will form the foundation of a new Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification module.
Construction Business
Mayors target embodied carbon in construction
The mayors of Budapest, Los Angeles. Mexico City and Oslo are the first signatories of a new declaration targeting a 50 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from construction projects by 2030.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Inquest to examine 2009 scaffolding collapse
An inquest into the circumstances of the four construction workers' deaths is mandatory under Ontario's Coroners Act. A construction site supervisor has already been convicted.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
How has COVID-19 changed the apartment market?
Jeremy Wedgbury, Senior Vice President, Commercial Mortgages, First National discusses how the pandemic has affected the apartment market.
Construction Business
Apprenticeship forum chair goes to union rep
The national, not-for-profit organization brings together employers, labour unions, training agencies and other stakeholder groups involved in developing the skilled trades workforce.
Canadian Property Management
Canadian developers navigate uncertainty
The bulk of findings in the newly released Altus Group Global Property Development Trends Report are tied to opinions collected in early 2020 before COVID-19’s full hit landed in the world’s commercial real estate markets.
REMI Network
Many cities are aggregate recycling laggards
Despite the many benefits of aggregate recycling, millions of tonnes of asphalt and concrete are dumped into landfill sites in Ontario.
Construction Business
Severe sexual harassment found on NYC jobsites
A construction firm in New York City will pay a USD $1.5 million settlement and undergo three years of outside monitoring following the State Attorney General’s investigation of sexual harassment complaints.
